FIREBIRDS NEWS

Recruits
Our Acting Commanding Officer, Sparhawk, has changed her e-mail address. Should you need to contact her, the address to e-mail to is now hlyap@pd.jaring.my.

Recruits
Welcome to the Firebirds, Tze Hou (Sea Eagle) and Syibratul! On behalf of the squadron, I wish you a plentiful hunting ground of Chigs, and may your tour of duty be fun.

Website
The Nesting Site has been updated, notable the previous edition of "Semarak Api" and the index. The server had a glitch a few days ago, but the pages has been fixed, and everything should be in working order.

ASIAN AIRWING NEWS

Website
The Asian Airwing site is listed in Yahoo! Congratulations to our former Technical Officer, Sparhawk, and the rest of the Airwing who made this possible.

SPACE: ABOVE AND BEYOND NEWS

General
The following is from a Sci-Fi Channel press release:

Space Above and Beyond, the series created by Glen Morgan and James Wong (The X-Files/Millennium writing/producing team), and Earth 2 from Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment, have more than doubled time period ratings for Sci-Fi Channel in January over fourth quarter, 1997.

Space Above and Beyond, airing on Sunday nights at 7:00p.m., has averaged a 1.6 rating* over its first two airings since its premiere on January 18th, while Earth 2, airing Sundays at 8:00 p.m. ET, has averaged a 1.4. These ratings represent 120% and 180% improvements, respectively, over fourth quarter 1997 averages for these time periods.

*source: Nielsen Media Research, NMR/Galaxy, January 2 - 25, 1998; subject to qualifications which will be supplied upon request.